Speech to Text and Text to Speech In Your Web Browser

Speech recognition software can be very pricey, but adding a speech recognition option to your computer doesn't have to be expensive. He...

Video - Three Ways Students Can Search for Creative Commons Licensed Images

Whenever students start searching on the web for pictures to use in their slideshows, videos, or infographics I have them search first for p...

Scrible Releases a New Chrome Extension to Help Students Organize Their Research

Scrible  is a free service offering a nice set of tools for highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking webpages. Recently, Scrible released a...

iChrome - An iGoogle-like Option for Chrome Users

Many iGoogle alternatives have popped-up on the web over the last eighteen months or so. I was never a big iGoogle user so I didn't mis...

TechSmith Snagit - A Chrome-based Screen Capture Tool

TechSmith Snagit is a new screen capture tool from the producers of the popular screencasting tools Jing and Camtasia. TechSmith Snagit is a...

Long-click to Find Definitions, Pictures, Videos, and More

Curiyo is a browser extension, available for Firefox and Chrome, that makes it easy to quickly find definitions, videos, pictures, and rela...

Try Knoema's World Data Finder to Fact-check Articles

Knoema is a service that offers a huge collection of data sets and maps for public use. Recently, Knoema introduced a Chrome extension call...

Edsavr - Collect, Save, and Share

Edsavr is a new Chrome extension developed by the team at An Estuary (a start-up founded by teachers in the Baltimore area). Edsavr is a ...

Dictionary Bubble - Double Click Words to See Definitions and Synonyms

Dictionary Bubble is a free Chrome extension that provides definitions and synonyms for any word that you double-click in an online article...

How to Install and Uninstall Chrome Extensions

Yesterday, I shared a neat Chrome extension called WikiTube . WikiTube matches YouTube videos to Wikipedia entries. This morning I had a co...

Lingualy Helps You Learn a Language While Browsing the Web

Lingualy is a free Google Chrome extension designed to help you learn a new language while browsing the web. With Lingualy installed anytim...

See and Print Pages More Clearly With Evernote Clearly

Evernote Clearly is a free browser extension available for Firefox and for Chrome. Clearly can strips the sidebar content from any webpage ...

WatchDoc - A Chrome Extension for Monitoring Google Docs Changes

Update 12/12/2013: It appears that this extension was removed from the Chrome store. I'm looking for an alternative option.  I love Goog...

The Dictionary of Numbers - Putting Numbers in Human Terms

Dictionary of Numbers is a neat Chrome extension that "translates" large numbers into terms that are easy to visualize. When you ...

Convert Text to Speech With Announcify

Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension. With Announcify installed in your browser ...

Readium - Read ePub Documents in Your Browser

Readium is a free Chrome extension that enables you to view ePub files in your browser. To read an ePub in Readium you can import the file ...

20 Chrome Apps & Extensions for Teachers and Students

This morning I got up very early by Saturday morning standards to be a virtual guest in a class at the University of the Philippines, Dilima...

13 Good Chrome Extensions and Apps for Students and Teachers

Later this week I am going to be a virtual guest in a class at the University of the Philippines, Diliman . The topic I've been invited ...

Oweb Voice Input - Use Your Voice to Complete Google Forms

You can search Google using your voice, but once you get to a site then you're back to typing. Oweb Voice Input is a free Chrome extens...

Add an Image Dictionary to Chrome

Image Dictionary is a Chrome extension that enables users to right-click on a word and quickly find an image that is representative of that...